It Takes A Village To Save A British Pub by Frank Langfitt

Villagers feared without the Packhorse, there would be no place in town for people to gather. So in 2012, John, Coles and others in the village created a grass-roots campaign called “Save the Packhorse.” They set out to preserve the pub and eventually raised funds to buy it. “You deplete a small community of a place like this, which is the only communal hub, and you just take its heart away,” said Dom Moorhouse, an entrepreneur who helped lead the effort. Since 2012, nearly 80 community groups across the U.K. have bought their local pubs, according to the Plunkett Foundation, a charity that, among other things, provides grants and advises communities on how to purchase and run pubs.